Nike Hatphone Makes for Wishful Thinking or Smart Trademarking

If you recall, after the release of Apple’s ‘i’ products we saw copycats and URLs pop-up everywhere. This product seems to leverage the recent release of the iPhone, but this time they’ve opted for the latter half of the name. The Hatphone by Nike, is not a phone or an accessory for the iPhone, but an accessory to the iPod Nano (isn’t this so yesteryear?). Apparently you can store your nano in the hat, use what is a ‘power mesh window’ to access the Nano’s scroll wheel, and run the headphones direct to your ears without the cords dangling at your neck. Since this product seems a little ‘out there’ namewise, one’s gotta think they are making a move to simply protect a trademark much like Cisco Systems tried to do with the iPhone.

Christen Costa

Grew up back East, got sick of the cold and headed West. Since I was small I have been pushing buttons - both electronic and human. With an insatiable need for tech I thought "why not start a blog focusing on technology, and use my dislikes and likes to post on gadgets."

This review is stupid as can be. If you can’t understand that Nike in no way means this to be a telePHONE that you can call with but headPHONES then you are amazingly ignorant to details. It is obvious it is not a phone, and if your reviews are just paraphrasing other sites content then this site is lame and should not be indexed on Google. Become a true writer and put some of your own thoughts into it, assuming you did not think on this one.